FS#52 - Some packages are built by "Unknown Packager"

Some packages have

packager = Unknown Packager

, which is caused by

makepkg.conf:PACKAGER

not being set.

I analyzed every .pkg.tar.xz file in the Arch 32 repos (all architectures). The earliest Unknown Packager package was built on June 9, 2017, and they’ve been intermittent since then. Here’s a listing of how many times each packager appears:

i was trying to make sense of this today and my results were pretty strange

i wrote a script to extract 'Unknown Packager' from the db caches in /var/lib/pacman/sync/ and i got very different counts then what luke reported - i ran the same script on both parabola i686 and again on arch32 - it did show that all of the packages by 'Unknown Packager' are in [extra], [community], and [core]

one thing i noted was that one of the packages (4ti2) that arch32 has by 'Unknown Packager' for v1.6.7 shows as v1.6.9 packaged by 'Erich Eckner' on parabola and the parabola package has a higher version number and later build date - maybe my mirrorlist is wonky on arch32 but it is the default one that was installed